Nadine Terk began her career as a Japanese Art Historian, with degrees from the University
of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. She lived in Japan for two years to study the traditional Eastern art forms of tea
ceremony, ikebana, and Hagi pottery. After moving to Jacksonville in 1997, she taught art history at the University of North
Florida and Flagler College. She held the positions of Curator of the Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art and produced
exhibitions of local and national significance. Terk made the transition from art
educator to artist more than a decade ago. Her initial studies were at the Art Students’ League in New York City. In
2005 she began studying classical drawing, figurative work and portraiture at Studio Incamminati with Nelson Shanks. A focus
on figurative realism has culminated in an ongoing project to document the workers of disappearing American industries.
The study of body movement in the Japanese tea ceremony and desire for greater audience participation
are the driving force of her expansion into multi-media works. As manufacturer of precious objects and former guardian of
these objects, Terk is currently exploring the dialogue between human and possession through a collaborative, multi-media,
project entitled Beyond Clean.
